Yellow Face

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By the end of David Henry Hwang's self-referential -- indeed, confessional --
Yellow Face, which is getting its New York premiere at the Public Theatre, he proves he has something worth saying about racial identity and racial tolerance. However, the long-winded fashion -- capped by a surprise ending -- in which he eventually asserts that national purity is a matter of welcome impurity is so calamitous that you want to grab him by the lapels and urge him to go back to the drawing-board for extensive revisions.

Or maybe it's Hoon Lee, the actor playing a version of Hwang, at whom you're ready to vent your spleen. That's because Lee is the easy target right in front of you as the often rig[...]